". . . Sources said Pevkur could at any moment decide to use his knowledge of rootkits and data decryption to wirelessly break into the cell phones of high-ranking government officials, business executives, international celebrities, or whomever he chooses, really."

This is seriously useful (and cool) tech. In a nutshell: measure earth quality by cropdusting RFID sensors with drones to figure out where to grow crops to best preserve water. Also, a potentially frightening delivery method for cropdusting other kinds of tiny tech.

"If [Dan Geer] doesn't understand how something works in detail, he says, he won't use it." This is a hell of a way to live. Soon, most people will barely understand anything they use. (Actually, I think we're already there.)

Fantastic, detailed look at the beginning of the net's infrastructure - and how early, hasty decisions that were meant to be patched later, never were. The world we live in now is a result of those early quasi-decisions.

A rallying cry to the way content propagates through the net now. Not through the web, through hyperlinks, but through social media streams that refuse to share, demand your attention, and lock you into themselves.

This is a difficult problem to solve, the stream. An endless inundation of content. Some quality, some not. Ultimately driven down a funnel, a bubbled existence of information made of images, still and moving. How can we avoid turning the internet into television?

Way's Notes

Hey! How's it going?

I'm doing well.

I'm thinking that I need to start writing some original content. I also need to finish those survey buttons! It's amazing. Always less time in the week than you think there is. And yet, time keeps getting smaller and smaller. You know why kids are so impatient? Because to them, 5 minutes/an hour/a day is a large fraction of their lives. The older you get, the shorter the time fraction gets.

Take some time for yourself. You could use this, right here, right now, as an excuse. Just five minutes to close your eyes (or stare into the distance), let the thoughts stir, and ponder what it's all about. You deserve it. We all deserve it.

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